While many of us think of dial-up Internet service as a long-buried relic of years past, for many Americans it’s still a sad, slow reality. The Pew Research Center reports that around 3% of American Internet users are still using dial-up services as their means for going online, a percentage that hasn’t change since 2011. Given that the decline in dial-up subscribers has slowed dramatically over the past two years, it seems that the remaining 3% who still use dial-up have no options to subscribe to DSL or cable and are more or less stuck with the service if they want to go online. This may explain why AOL has actually been jacking up prices for dial-up users recently since its customers seemingly have nowhere else to go.

Yeah, when you live way out in the country its hard to get modern technology sometimes. What gets me though is they use that bloatware called AOL. I admit when I first started using the internet in 1996 I thought that AOL was the internet but within a few short months I learned that AOL wasn't needed. I ditched them when other provides came around.

Around 2% of the UK is still on Dial-up too. According to an article in 2008 huge portion of those still on dial-up aren't interested in Broadband, would be interesting to know how much the figures have changes since then.

it took a while for mine to load especially compared to cable now days. You could definitely see a lag in loading a webpage on 56k. Also downloading a 10mb file would take awhile and for massive files, a few days sometimes a week if you could stay connected that long.